I am trying to use bounding box text to ad format to some of my drawings, like adding notes (horizontal text is not an option for this), using text box on shark is kind of painful but at the end the work can be done.

The next problem is that, exporting the drawing to illustrator o autocad give you a totally undesirable results with bounding box texts, just look at the pictures:

This is the drawing in shark:
[ATTACH]3932[/ATTACH]

This is what a get in autocad;

[ATTACH]3933[/ATTACH]

This is what a get in illustrator:

[ATTACH]3934[/ATTACH]

Is there any way to get better result or get some improvement on bounding box text tool?
Luis G.

This might be an opportune time to revisit my suggestion about making text readable like flags or barber poles. Whatever angle the drawing is in, the user could choose to keep the text's base edge horizontal to the bezel or other user-defined reference. This way, when flipping or reversing a model, callouts would still be readable.

If a number of callouts or balloons or bubbles are proximate to each other, they could magnify their separation and stagger their heights for on-screen purposes, and work as proposed arrangements for printing purposes so leaders don't overlap or tangle with other leaders and geometry.

They could have their anchor points on the geometry, but if the 3D model space is rotated or orbited in certain ways, the balloons and bubbles could "float" just enough while still tethered to the leaders. So, if a ship is a model being looked at, and the user uses Navigator or a mouse to "roll" or pitch the model, some or all specified leader elements might float/rise and others might only elevate without the leader moving fully vertically, almost as if an out-rigged antenna maintaining its relative fixed angle to the hull.

Mathematically, I'm of the mind it can be done. It probably needs some sort of "magnetism" to know real-world NSWE and needs some "gravity" to know to keep separation from other text to avoid onerous/ugly overlapping.

If a mouse is rolled over a callout, it could upsize for readability to spare the user of zooming.

Importing Box Text into AutoCAD (or as DWG) is now working in the next upload.

Tim

Sorry, Jol. I forgot to prepend it.


This is a good time to make text behavior change so it is readable form whichever orientation or rotation or panning a user is in. The text just needs to know up zenith and nadir and the bezel and keep an upright readability that is flat or planar to the screen.